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Windows 7: BSOD whilst installing programs

Ok i was getting BSODs very regularly on my pc at seemingly random times (including during installation of windows) and i thought i had eliminated everything except for cpu and mobo. i RMA'd the cpu and the retailer said they had found a problem with it and sent me a new one.
i put the new one in my pc yesterday and since then i've had 4 BSODs., mostly whilst installing programs.

i'd really appreciate it if someone would help me with this, it's driving me crazy i've uploaded the sf_diagnostic results

Thanks Arc,
I ran memtest overnight, it did 12 passes with no errors - does that mean i dont need to test the ram modules individualy?

the virus check came up clean, but thats not really surprising, when i got the replacement cpu on wednesday i installed windows from scratch, and i'd only been connected to the internet for an hour or so before i started this thread

i dont yet have antivirus installed on this computer as its usually not connected to the internet and im trying to squeeze maximum performance out of it

i enabled driver verifier and carried on installing stuff, but this time it blue-screened as i was closing down chrome.

i dont know if this helps but i've found a consistent way to may my pc bsod. i have quite a large suit of software on a set of dvds and every time i try to install it, i get a blue screen about halfway through the first dvd.

ive tried swapping out the dvd rive for another but the problem still happens.

Use Microsoft Security Essentials as your antivirus with windows inbuilt firewall, and free MBAM as the on demand scanner.
Download, install and update those, and then run full system scans with both of them, one by one.

And, then enable Driver Verifier as suggested earlier. You need to enable it, otherwise in this case it will not be helpful for you.

Seatool for dos: SeaTools | Seagate download
Burn it in a blank cd. boot from the CD, click on "Accept", wait for it to finish detecting the drives, then in the upper left corner select "Basic Tests", then select "Long Test" and let it run.

Re-seat and even try to seat the Optical Disc Drive in another SATA port. Change the SATA and power cables connecting the ODD and other HDDs.

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